Will asking Americans about Canada ever get old? Not as long as keep giving ridiculous answers.

More than a decade after Rick Mercer’s “Talking to Americans” segments on This Hour Has 22 Minutes taught us how little our southern neighbours know about our country, the genre continues to produce humbling examples of American ignorance. Most recently, the Harvard Crimson newspaper asked students at the prestigious university to name the capital of Canada.

While it might be unreasonable to expect average Americans to know very much about a country that has a tenth the population of the United States, you’d think students at one of the top five universities in the world would do a bit better.

The answers were all over the map, and the only person to properly identify Ottawa turned out to be Canadian. Ouch.